When i compare your output to mine, I can see, that wlan1 has an IP whereas your’s hasn’t. WLan was switched off. When I made the screenshot. I double checked that.
With a bit of switching on and off the wifi, I managed to get the rephone to no longer be visible. Rebooted the rephone, stopped wifi, made sure cellular was on. And now I’m connected to the hotspot again and sending this. GS5 seemed to connect a bit faster, but this seems stable.
This is the ifconfig from the rephone (the one above was from the GS5. confusing).
Your phone connects to wlan0 the GS5 to wlan1. Something is very odd here. I try again with a reboot and report. If I have no success, I try it with a reflash. On the longer sight I need the hotspot functionality on my daily driver. I can abdicate android support, but not hotspot.
I rebooted and stopped wifi, made sure cellular was on. Rephone showed up, but no connection was possible. I’ll reflash and report in the evening the status with a freshly flashed phone.
Ok I reflashed. Nothing installed. Connected to WLan , to set up Jolla account.
Switched off WLan, turned on Hotspot The Wlan Icon Was dark, at that moment I turn on Hotspot it lights up and tells me it is connected to my Home Wifi.
I tried to connect with another device to the rephone: Not possible. I tried to turn off WLan, which leeds to switching of Hotspot. Turn on Hotspot again. Phone doesn’t show up anymore. No way to change this.
So I deleted all WLan Passwords on Phone, rebooted it. Turned on Hotspot and connected my Laptop with the Phone. Access to internet . Switched off Hotspot and afterwards on again: Phone doesn’t show up. After a further reboot: Same procedere same result. I can connect exactly once to the phone, when there is no known WLan around afterwards it doesn’t show up anymore.
And now??? I’m clueless!
At least there seems to be a reliable method to use it as hotspot, but this is on the long term not suitable.
What has improved, is, that the Icon isn’t switching between WLan and mobile data. The situation with a freshly installed Sailfish connect is as well the same as before.
For today my SIM and my SD will move to the XPeria again. It takes some hours to set up all anew. And I have some appointments later on.
If I can help with anything, let me know. I’m not able to code, but with testing or other more trivial tasks I can cope with.
Short info: After updating to 4.5.0.21 the switching icon is back. At least it was for a short while. Now it looks stable again. Having things working sometimes and sometimes not, doesn’t make it easier to nail itdown.
As I told, I tried wifi hotspot from my GS5 (not lite).
The first time, it started and was seen from my SFOS XA2.
I tried to connect. It lasted long and didn’t work.
Then, my XA2 could not see the hotspot any more.
Restarting network from the Settings → Utilities allows to restart the procedure but my XA2 could not connect.
So, I took a book and a bath
I wonder why both of mine work?! There are other issues with networking for sure. I cannot do ipp (works on the GS290/volla). I cannot connect to qmllive from the SDK. So, off I go to debug another issue.
EDIT: just tried with the GS5 again and when wifi is OFF and cellular on, hotspot works really well. Just spent a hour trying different things with it as the hotspot. Was even relatively snappy! On the otherhand, can’t print with it via wifi and seaprint
Sorry, no, I always start making backups, when I have a for me suitable system. In my tests with the Hostspot directly after flashing, the experience WHEN I was able to established a working connection, was as well stable and snappy.
Just to get a ‘clean slate’ on the rephone, I’m going through VollaOS first and testing all functions. So far, good news:
video recording works just fine in vollaOS.
Wifi, Bluetooth, USB MTB work
FM radio works ( )
Multi-boot installer running … I’ll edit this when I’ve been able to test.
SIM really flaky
Skipping multi-boot and installing 4.4.0.72
Which required re-installing vollaos again (sigh)
Confirm it boots and camera video works.
Realize I’m stuck in a loop. VollaOS multi-boot select with VollaOS ‘only’ even after flashing with sfos
Lesson learned, never touch multi-boot into VollaOS unless you want to be stuck with a bootloader you don’t want. Hmmmm. Anyone know how to get rid of the boot image selector!?
I’ll go low level I guess. No worries, it just changes some ‘default’ advice I used to give or at least means a warning for what not to do.
EDIT: well, the simple solution is to remove the SD card. I also used the UT install just to see what the state was since it’s at 20 now. But, removing the SD card got me booting SFOS again.
News from my side regarding network. After the reflash I’m now more or less constantly on interface wlan0. My Ip is now shown on the developer site in settings. The WLan Icon is now most of the time stable.
…And Sailfish connect works now. Not very good compared to my other devices, but it seems so far reliable. I have to set the IPs of the devices I want to connect. So no autorecognition. And I have to be patient. It takes up to two minutes until the devices show up and are getting connected. Connection quality is sometimes as well somewhat flaky, but anyway. It works at least.
I hope you get the network issues debugged. I have moved SIM Card and SD to the rephone again.
EDIT: so it seems like, which makes sense, wifi off if you want to run a hotspot via cellular.
. Switched off Hotspot and afterwards on again: Phone doesn’t show up. 
After a further reboot: Same procedere same result. I can connect exactly once to the phone, when there is no known WLan around afterwards it doesn’t show up anymore.
